The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-05-21
CATHOLIC NEWS.
Religious Notes.

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Brillion and Morrison, Wis. :
The Polish Catholics are erecting
church near Shawano, Wis.
A new Catholic church was recently
dedicated at Wheatfeld, Ind.
Norristown, n. j., is to have new
Catholic schoolhouse at a cost of $780,
600.
Rev. Father Mccartney, Of Algona,
Iowa, will build new church at West
Bend, Iowa.
A new parochia! school Is to be erect
ed adjoining St. Mary's Church, Col
umbus, ohips at a cost 6f.s7 600.
St. Patrick's Church at Dixon, IL.
was burned Saturday, May Z. Ire
church cost S45, 900 when erected.
The Catholic Hollanders OF Grand
Rapids, Mich, have made arrange
meuts to build themselves a $4,000
church.
A new church is to be erected i'll the
parish OF the Sacred Heart. San Fran
cisco. Cal. OF which the Rev James
Flood is rector.
The 1T. Rev. Bishop Katzer lately
blessed new convent tree school at
Oconto, Wis. 1t is in charge Of seven
Sisters of st, Joseph.
The Rev. DR.. Burtsell, rector OF the
Church Of the Epiphany, New York, is
about to build large brick parochial
school, at cost of $4,000
Rev. Arthur J. Donnelly, rector of
St. Michael's Church, will be made
Vicar.G General Of the diocese OF New
York, 10 succeed the late Mgr Quinn,
The Rev. Father Japonara, who has
charge OF the Italian mission i'll the
Eastern District, Brooklyn, N. Y, is
building a new school and church for
his Italian congregation.
The retreat for men, preached during
Holy Week in the Cathedral OF Notre
Dame, Paris, by the eminent Do'n1nl-
can, Pere Monsabre, was followed on
Easter morning by general Commun-
ion Of 5000 men.
IT has been found in the statistics OF
Berlin that out Of 1882 persons who OBJ
tanned divorces during certain period
1882 were Frotestants, actually or
nominally, 26 were Jews aud II were
non1inaliy Catholics.
The English and German Catholic
congregations Of Aurora, Ill, have
combined and purchased tract Of land
in the southeast part Of the City tor a
cemetery, and expect to have it ready
for conservation by Decoration day,
A congress of Engllsh-speaking
Catholics will meet in London shortly
to discuss religious progress, labor and
capital, temperance and other subjects.
1t is expected that American prelates
Will attend. Cardinal Manning is the
leading spirit III the movement.
The newly appointed papal nuncio to
Vienna, whose mission is to arrange a
difficulty between the Austrian govern
ment and the vatican, growing out Of
certain privileges granted by the latter
to the Slav-c clergy, carries with him an
autograph letter from his Holiness to
Emperor Francis Joseph.
The Catholic seminary built last year
in Waseca, Mimi, at 81 cost OF over
$50, 600 has proved entirely inadequate
Over two hundred scholars are in at
tendance, and to make room for others
an addition is being erected, 30x60,
with two stories and a basement. The
whole will be surmounted by tower
sixty feet high.
Archbishop Leray, of New Orleans,
who has just risen from sick bed, will
leave next week by steamer for New
York, whence he will take a steamer
the 28th for Europe. He goes to visit
the Pope. When he was consecrated
in 1876, the debt of the archdiocese, as
shown by the books, amounted to $780,
925, "a, it is now 1921 ,645.S3. A reduce
ton of $269, 2S0.
The Very Rev. Dr.. Glynn, Prior of
the Irish -Augustinians in Rome, has
arrived in New York. His mission is
to collect funds for the new monImen-
tai Church of St. Patrick, to be erected
in that city. He is empowered to be-
stow the Apostolic Blessing upon all
who contribute to the proposed edihce.
He is accompanied by Father Bernard,
O. S. A.. the Sub-Prior.
The generosity of the late United
States Congress manifested Itself in re-
hitting the back taxes OF st. Dominic's
Church, Washington, D. c., amounting
to $4,000. 1t also made appropriations
for Catholic benevolent institutions in
the same city, as follows: St. AIMS In
FAINT Asylum, $4,000; st. Roses Indus
trial School, 5000. and the House of
the Good Shepherd, $4,000.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Rademacher re-
Gently dedicated the new Church of the